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niums, Mrs. Maclean and Cerise are tlio only good ones 
in this shade. 
Sect. 17. Blush.— A lighter tint than Pudibundus, 
the blush from bashfulness. Lovely Gem and Mrs. 
White are the two best blush-coloured. 
Sect. 18. Pink White or French White, or the 
lightest degree of Blush. —A lovely group rich as the 
Albas are among the old French Hoses. Admiral Lyons, 
Madonna, and Venus are the three best of them, and 
Mrs. Beecher the next best. The four have crimson 
eyes, I am sorry to say ; but all the eyes of all Yerbenas j 
want the “ philter in the phiz ” yet. 
Sect. 19. Pure Whites. —All white flowers ought to 
be used in the modern ilower garden in such a manner as 
to throw additional light, so to speak, on the rest of the 
colours, not for the eye to re3ton, but the white to relieve 
it,, as it were. When the eye wants relief that way, one 
ot two things is self-evident: the colours are wrongly 
placed, or the eye is untutored. Mrs. ILolford is still the 
best white for large beds, and for the middle distance in 
ribboning, but Snoioflake is better for small beds and for 
rows in front of Purple 'King, or King of Purples ; and 
for cottage flower-beds L'Argentine arid Mrs. Hosier 
Williams are the best, because, with equally good flower, 
they are of a more dwarf and manageable habit for sober 
folks, and match well in opposite beds. 
Sect. 20. Salmon-rose. —None of this colour that I 
know stand the sun in beds. I hand them over to Mr. 
Fish to bo shaded in the shadow of his mantle. The 
sorts being — Ivanhoe, Julie, Magnificent, and Miss 
Whibley. 
Sect. 21. Muddled Sorts, alias Mottled. —My blood 
boils at the idea ot mottled beds, and I would hand over 
all mottled Verbenas to the care and protection of those 
who have tried to catch both ends of the rainbow. Cen- 
drillon, Novelty, Parfum Madeline, Requisite, and Zoe, 
are all more or less mottled, and very pretty in pots out 
of the sun. 
Sect. 22. Striped Sorts. —Here both ends meet. The 
extreme limits of Verbena melindris, and all the kinds 
with which it has crossed in its generations, and the 
beginning of the line lineal from the very different 
species, or kind, called pule hell a. The best and the only 
two kinds which belong to pulchella are Maonetti and 
Maonetti coccinea, or, what is better, Empress Elizabeth, 
purple striped; and Empress Elizabeth, scarlet striped. 
Of those which belong to the Melindris line, the best 
striped are Striped Perfection and Madame Jourdier ; 
and the next best are Madame Legras and Madame 
Lcmonier. 
To make a clean breast of it, I have been preparing for 
this selected list of Verbenas since the beginning of 1852, 
till the first frost of last October; and the kind of assist¬ 
ance which I should covet for the future, in order to keep 
the thing up to the level of the fashion, would be, that 
new kinds should be compared with the best in these 
sections, each tint, or shade, or colour, in its own section. 
The half of the world i3 not yet up to one-half of the 
beauty and richness of the dark purples, violets, and blue 
purples for pot plants, and the other half train their pot 
Verbenas to their ruin; and to go right round the Ver¬ 
benas, allow me to tell of the summer of 1831, when I 
travelled 3000 miles in England looking into the best 
gardens; but there was not what you might call a 
regular Verbena-bed then in all England, nor a Petunia- 
bed, nor a Calceolaria-bed. 
The bedding Verbenas flowered first in England, the 
Petunias in Ireland, and the Calceolarias in Scotland. 
The best bedding system then in England was at Drop- 
more ; the best collection of Geraniums at Sir Richard 
Hoare’s, near Bath ; the best collection of bulbs, not 
botanically, was at Wentworth House, in Yorkshire ; the 
best orangery near to where Captain Hornby now resides, 
just his Knowsley Cottage and Prescot; the best Pines 
were at Haglcy; and the best collection of herbaceous 
and rare botanical hardy plants, on sale, was at the 
Epsom Nursery ; at Mr. Wheeler’s, of Warminster, was 
the next placo to look for rarities out of London; and 
for rare bulbs one would need to send all the way to 
Mr. Young, of Taunton, who with Mr. Tate, of Sloano 
Street, London, was the only public man in England, 
who could discourse practically on bulbs in general ; 
and the only railroad was that between Liverpool and 
Manchester. Therefore, no wonder that I should place 
very little value on the opinions of those who follow out 
landscape gardening entirely on the plans and principles 
of the generations which practised and formed their 
models before that time. D. Beaton. 
HOW TO FARM TWO ACRES AND MAKE 
THE MOST OF THEM. 
[Continued from page 20.) 
TIIE PIG. 
The keeping of a pig ought at all times to form a part 
of the domestic economy; and with the offal of a garden 
and such things as the waste or kitchen-waste of a 
dwelling-house, a pig may often be kept at very little 
expense ; and in the case before us two or three pigs may 
usually be kept at all times, as the fattening of pigs is 
perhaps the easiest and most satisfactory of all animal 
feeding. Assuming, therefore, that the piggery forms a 
part of the yard before described as being occupied by 
the cow as well, it may be proper here to say that the 
pig-house need not be a large structure. If built of 
brick, as we suppose it to be, a building four feet square 
inside will be large enough for two or three pigs ; but it 
would be better to have two such pig-houses together, 
with each a small yard in front of them, which yard need 
not be more than eight feet by four, or the whole space 
occupied by the two pig-houses and their yards might be 
thirteen feet by ten feet; and the height of the pig-house 
need in no case exceed four feet, except at the ridge, 
perhaps. Of course, larger dimensions will be wanted 
where a greater number of pigs are kept; but as we 
expect the occupiers of a two-acre allotment will seldom 
have more than two pigs fattening and two others in 
store use at one time, the size above given will be ample, 
as it is expected the growing pigs will have the privilege 
of being turned out in the “ farmyard ” occasionally for 
a run. 
varieties of pigs. 
Like most useful animals as well as birds, the breeds 
of pigs have wonderfully improved of late years. Tho 
long-faced, gaunt-looking, Irish hog, which some thirty 
years back used to be imported extensively into the west 
of England, has been long ago superseded by a more 
useful animal ; and the Royal and other agricultural 
societies have done much at their shows to encourage the 
breed of a useful class of fast-growing and quick-fatting 
animals; and by judicious breeding and crossing, good 
useful pigs are to bo met with in most counties; and 
occasionally various breeds may be met with in closo 
neighbourhood to each other. A brief notice of some of 
these may be of service in enabling the amateur to choose 
those most suited to his particular wants. 
Cheshire breed. —This is a large pig, generally white 
and with long hair, and when fatted often attains an 
enormous size. It is not at all adapted for killing as a 
porker, but is especially adapted for bacon, and it seldom 
attains a full size under eighteen months or two years 
old. 
Berkshire breedl .—This is decidedly a great improve¬ 
ment on the one last named, fattening at an earlier age, 
and being in many other respects a superior animal. In 
colour it is usually a sort of a sandy white with large 
spots scattered over its body; legs short, and considerable 
depth of body; ears pendent like the Cheshire hog, but 
